James Kitchman: First Quartet

Bruno Heinen | James Kitchman | Shaney Forbes | Tom McCredie

Sometimes it pays to wait. Guitarist James Kitchman had been around the London scene for a decade before forming his...

Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: August/2022

Curtis Fuller: Four Classic Albums

The collective personnel above mask a series of Fuller’s ‘name’ albums made, respectively and in sequence, for Blue Note (The...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2020

Shakers n' Bakers: Heart Love

Alison Miller | Chris Lightcap | Jamie Saft | Jeff Lederer | Joe Fielder | Kirk Knuffke | Lisa Parrott | Mary LaRose | Miles Griffith | Steven Bernstein

Saxophonist Jeff Lederer's celebrations of Albert Ayler's legacy continue with a CD dedicated to Ayler's song and those of Mary...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: October/2018

Miles Davis: Live in Copenhagen 1964

Herbie Hancock | Miles Davis | Ron Carter | Tony Williams | Wayne Shorter

This concert comes three months after The Miles Davis Quintet in Tokyo from 14 July 1964 with Sam Rivers on...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2012

Preservation Hall Jazz Band: So It Is

Ben Jaffe | Branden Lewis | Charlie Gabriel | Clint Maedgen | Kyle Roussel | Ronell Johnson | Stephen Lands | Walter Harris

Since the beginning of the 1960s, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, as its name suggests, has been about preserving the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2017

Bobo Stenson: Contra la indecision

Anders Jormin | Bobo Stenson | Jon Fält

The partnership between Stenson and Jormin goes back to the 1980s, in both the trio format and also in rhythm...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2018

Thane & The Villeins: Pete Whittaker/Art Themen/George Double

Art Themen | George Double | Pete Whittaker

This threesome went all cod-mediaeval after playing in Double’s historic Suffolk home town and the cover art reflects this, with...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: April/2020

John Escreet: Sabotage and Celebration

Adam Rogers | Annette Homann | Chris Potter | David Binney | Fung Chern Hwei | Garth Stevenson | Genevieve Artadi | Hannah Levinson | Jim Black | John Escreet

For John Escreet’s fifth recording since the impressively ambitious debut Consequences in 2008, the New York jazz scene’s hottest English...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2013

The Jerry Granelli Trio: Plays Vince Guaraldi & Mose Allison

Bradley Christopher Jones | Jamie Saft | Jerry Granelli

It's extremely gratifying to hear that at the age of 79, and after almost six decades as a leading jazz...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: July/2020

Mike Hobart's Urban Jazz Collective: The Third Fish

Boukie | Chris Lee | Danny Keane | Mhe Hobart | Sven Atterton

If you believe critics are just frustrated musicians, this new recording by Financial Times jazz correspondent Mike Hobart might cause...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013